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FPLAY
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Flow and immersion in first-person shooters: measuring the player's gameplay experience
Researching experiential phenomena is a challenging undertaking, given the sheer variety of experiences that are described by gamers and missing a formal taxonomy: flow, immersion...
Lennart Nacke, Craig A. Lindley
FPLAY
2008
14 years 2 months ago
World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg
This paper describes World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg -- an entity that exists for play and depends on both artificial and organic components to survive. We argue that the popu...
Victoria McArthur
FPLAY
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Crafting game-models using reactive system design
This paper presents a game-model of a gym training system, where the behavior of the system is specified using languages developed originally for reactive system design, which dri...
David Harel, Itai Segall, Hillel Kugler, Yaki Sett...
FPLAY
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent adaptation of digital game-based learning
Games for learning cannot take the same design approach as games when targeting audiences. While players of entertainment games have the luxury of choosing games that suit them, s...
Brian Magerko, Carrie Heeter, Joe Fitzgerald, Ben ...
FPLAY
2008
14 years 2 months ago
The case for research in game engine architecture
This paper is a call for research in the field of game engine architecture and design, a more comprehensive and thorough understanding of which we consider to be essential for its...
Eike Falk Anderson, Steffen Engel, Peter Comninos,...